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Gameplay
The game introduced three new weapons to diversify the play styles of the game. A swinging ball, a rapier, and a scimitar. The ball in my opinion is primarily used to clear out early game mobs and nothing further than that. It does higher damage than the others but very slow. It serves primarily as mob clearing till you get to the boss fights. this doesn’t have a parry but you can ignite your enemies with the r1 instead.The rapier acts like a very fast weapon which can decimate most big enemies really fast. it works more so, if you don’t take damage while damaging enemies you can get the lighting buff on the weapon. its very good to use when facing against some bosses and non-crouching enemies. this has a normal parry with a perfect parry option that’s basically a sliding dashThe scimitar is basically like the mel culpa from the original game. parry’s the same way. acts the same. has the buff of doing more damage at the cost of your own when you activate it. the most balanced of the weapons.All weapons come with progress abilities pertaining to each weapon and you get progression abilities as you progress as well. this is one thing I kind of didn’t like about this game because it does not reward you as much for exploration vs how blasphemous 1 did it but at the same time, they don’t take a prayer bead slot anymore.They introduced a new statue system where you can put buffs on your character, you can have up to 8 slots.they added 3 upgrade rows for each weapon, some increase defense, some increase damage, and some are new abilities for the weapons.the statues and upgrade rows each require a new currency called marks which you gain from either the yellow bowls,killing enemies enough times or some shops sell a couple.The difficulty of this game is way easier than blasphemous 1. The only time I died was because of bosses and barely anywhere else. This is good if you like easier games but coming from how challenging blasphemous 1 was, it kinda leaves a somewhat bad taste in the mouth.Most bosses have multiple opening where you can attack them except for the boss before the final fight. theirs only one type of opening where you can damage the boss. which is pretty annoying. I literally just did the time stop with fervor regen statue bonuses.around 70-80 percent are re-used enemies from the first game (this doesn’t include bosses for those are all new and different). some enemies have slight difference in how they attack and if they jump to get to you.upgrading the weapons is less interesting than how blasphemous 1 does it, blasphemous 2 has statues that act like a collectible while blasphemous 1 had lore associated with it.some abilities have been nerfed (the protection) by increasing the cost. theirs a quick cast abilities and normal cast. one is fast game play and one is slower to activate.I feel like blasphemous 2 changes a lot about the gameplay but also there are instances where they take two steps back. 2.0.
Story
The story of this game start off after the end of blasphemous 2 but when is the true question.the game starts with the first boss and you are required to defeat all the previous penitent ones and some others sprinkled in.the game story feels more direct vs how blasphemous feels more flavor text like.two endings of the game, didn’t like neither of them honestly.There is a good array of side quest and some are hidden like the guilt and the honey statue side quest.the yerma side quest I missed because I assumed its like the veridiana but you can still buy the prayer gained so its not missable.the baby side quest is a very interesting side quest and how graphic it is/was kind of shows you the gravity a father would go through to feed their child.my favorite boss fights was the bosses that had two-three phases.blasphemous 2 suffers the same curse that the final boss is basically a joke.I think currently with blasphemous 2 at its launch state, story wise felt more so to me a solid 1.5.
Music
I think the music for blasphemous 2 is very similar in scope to what I felt with blasphemous 1.it didn’t make me bop my head and look for the sound track after. I feel like the music fits the overall them of the gameso 2.0 feels like a good solid score for this game
Performance
This game runs very well but still has this weird motion blurring issue I think that’s whats its called. took my eyes a few times to focus again as well. it deserves a 2.0
Price Point
This game has an msrp of 29.99, they had a pre-order sale on the pc. If you are going to offer a pre-order sale of a couple of bucks. just make the game that price from the start.the game felt like a 20 dollar game package as a 30 dollar game. I don’t believe they did enough to warrant that price point.so I’ll s… Expand
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